Oricon has released a ranking of the top selling manga of 2011, revealing once again the total dominance of Shonen Jump – over half the top 20 are comprised of Jump titles, and One Piece outsells the better part of the top 10 combined.

Are you guys being serious? Kubo story consist of asspulls and pointless talking. I can’t remember the last time Bleach had a good fight. Also it should have ended with Ichigo losing his powers instead we get another arc about him getting some other random ability. Ishida lost his powers wait no he didn’t! Every buildup for Bleach goes nowhere.

I love how some people hate on something that they haven’t read. Maturity right there.

But as for lists go, these are the only lists I care about. There are as many opinions in the world as assholes, just like there are a millions lists made for what is best. Only non biased list’s are sales lists.

well i wouldnt say there isnt a main story line for fairy tail like i mean its abt natsu being a dragon slayer and dragons going missing on the same day year and month. so heres a thought that the dragon slayers haf to go find the dragons and kill them i dunno just a thought.

No surprise Shounen Jump titles dominate. It’s probably been around longer than most of it’s competition the same way Marvel and DC have been around: Multiple generations of Japanese probably read the Jump as their first manga and stories like Dragon Ball put it on the map world-wide.

How is it any better? the latest chapter involves a used tactic by the enemy being repeated with some minor variations. It makes no sense you would claim something but have nothing to back it up with. thats kinda retarded.

same here
usually i can tollerate shitty art one piece is just unbearable.
if the story really is that good then it’s my loss i guess…
but then again what i’ve seen of it seemed very shounen-ish with lots of fighting and superpowers, so i’d probably not like it anyway

I really dont get why people say One Piece’s art is ‘shitty’ solely because they dont like the style. Not liking the style doesn’t make it ‘shitty’. There’s incredibly detail in Eichirou Oda’s artwork in both the characters and backgrounds that is consistent, and there are many shots that are quite cinematic. He draws great action scenes and is good at conveying many things visually. And the art definitely stands out. Personally, he’s one of my favourite artists because of this. I understand how people can’t like the style, but if you think that makes his art ‘shitty’ then you’re just an idiot.

Aye. Though for many, mystery and detective stories are not appealing because it either
-requires you to actually work your brain
-the plot is too easy to see through for some
-no burning passion (oft seen in battle stuff)

For one I am just amazed that Kimi ni Todoke is on #9. Kinda glad. Though I remember girls told me that it is the one manga that should not be read on the train/metro because one might suddenly burst into tears lol. Ahh japanese people so easy to shed tears 😛 kinda cute lol.

I beg to differ. I think the series got MORE interesting as it went on. However the reasons manga reading sites have Naruto listed as #1 is because Naruto is more popular over here in the States than One Piece. In my opinon, One Piece’s story/characters are a lot better written than Naruto’s

At first when I started watching it Soul Society Arc had just ended and I kept watching the 1st filler arc ‘n’ it was still cool, but den I read the manga and was like “come on cut this filler crap and get on with the awesome Arrancars already!!”

But den the Hueco Mundo Arc finished and I was like “GOD, WHY AM I STILL READING THIS CRAP FOR 3 FUCKING YEARS…”

There’s probably ten times the amount of manga than there is anime. One can conclude that there’s 10 times the amount of variety as well.

Manga can be created be one person (or less than 5). Anime can only be created by hundreds of people with a lot of business deals and sponsors before it can be made. As such, it costs a lot more to produce a single episode of anime than several volumes of manga. The financial risk in producing an anime is high.

The top selling mangas are usually shounen series that kids like to watch or otaku manga/LN that are most surely going to buy the DVDs.

The average joe might pick up a volume of Doraemon or w/e and read it when they’re bored… but will they buy the DVDs? Will they even know of the anime?

Oh yes, books with pictures does that to you. You get incited by how you can read a full story in less than an hour, but by the time you’ve looked at your first page, you’ve already turned into a monster who wants to use chop off little childrens’ heads and force their parents to eat them.

Complete BULLSHIT! One Piece hat more creativity and FAR FAR better writing than DragonBall. Toriyama even admitted that he made up the story as he went along with it. Oda on the other hand plans YEARS ahead and his storyarcs are perfectly written! One Piece has surpassed DragonBall in EVERY aspect!

lol, Luffy wouldn’t ever be able to destroy Whitebeard or Raileigh, and is way too far from Aokiji/Akainu/Kizaru, and those are just a few. Plus, when he loses, he loses good.
Goku just throws a kamehameha or a genkidama and everyone dies… and if goku dies, who cares? he can revive right away.

Not at all. Bleach is, and I’m not normally a hater, exactly what you described, but one piece is neither formulaic or boring. Sure, they fight people in every arc, but if you think that’s repetitive, never read any ongoing series ever again.

On top of everything else
it only costs 400 yen to buy a new (105yen for used) manga in Japan for most titles.
manga is fantastic for reading on the train/bus.
people like to have their collections.
japanese police care about people reading manga online.

i never said i did read it on the internet – i barely read manga at all – i buy the manga if it has chapters im interested in and buy the anime if i have the money and it gets released here – for instance i have Heaven’s Lost Property on preorder but hardly anything good i want to read from the stores near here.

I cut down on extra costs (such as eating out, etc.) and buy the series I like (i.e. that I read online!). Having it in physical copy just cannot be compared to having a digital copy when its for a quick re-read.

When it’s to work with the said images, HQ scans are definitely the way to go.